Over the Spring and early Summer I managed to build two new cabinets similar to the one completed earlier (see prior post). These two cabinets fill the recesses on either side of the gas fireplace in the Den (Study). Since I'd made on set previously, these weren't too complicated in terms of the basic boxes and shelved. However, this time I added a bank of drawers (2 in each cabinet) and and doors (to hide A/V) equipment. I'd done drawers before and they're not too bad, especially if you cut them all out at once. The doors were a little trickier since they old glass which is a bit heavy. Nevertheless, they came out fine, close easily and all the remotes communicate right thru the glass.
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| Left Side Cabinet |
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| Right Side Cabinet |
After the cabinets were complete, installed and finished with
polyurethane, I made the mantle piece from Peruvian walnut and then templated the mantle top (rock). Richert's
Marble and Granite (Sequim) cut the top out of a spare piece of
3-cm-thick Serpentinite that we had left over from the kitchen. Just a little
filing away of dry wall and the rock top slide right into place. I
lifted it up, put a half-dozen 1/2" blobs of silicon caulk on the mantle and dropped the rock
back down into place. If I ever have to pull the top off, I can just
run a thin saw (Japanese type) under the rock and cut thru the caulk (advise from John Richert).
However, I'm not ever planning on doing this--but never say no.
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| Walnut mantle and rock top |
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| Whole wall, weird angles are a result of stitching 3 pics together |
Remaining jobs to be done in our 98% completed house are upstairs marble tile work around the shower and tub (a big job), upstairs closet shelving (buy and install), build out the wine cellar (a winter job), install the reflective tubes on the solar tubes, and landscape the back yard. At this rate, I'll be done in about 2015 and on Medicare.
